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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Thrash and death metal band from Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2015. The band features James Pugens on vocals, Alex Rodrigues on guitars, Marcello Caminha Filho on bass, and Machine on drums, and released the EP Empires Will Fall in 2013 and the full-length Inhuman Sovereign on October 28, 2015, recorded at Jardim Elétrico Studios.
Rotten Flesh is a groove/death metal band from Velen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2024. The band delivers heavy grooves and death metal brutality from the Münsterland region.
One-person death metal and grindcore project from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with all instruments and vocals handled by Jefferson Death. The band released the EP Nascer, viver, morrer e apodrecer... in January 2018, a five-track collection tagged as old school splatter death metal whose tracklist includes "Diário de um Legísta" and "O Estripador."
Brutal death metal/grindcore band from Russia, formed in 2021. Their horror-themed name accompanies extreme brutality.
Portland's Rotten Funeral emerged in 2020, trafficking in the raw and corrosive sounds of black metal with a spirit that feels rooted in the Pacific Northwest underground. Their work is suffused with a cold, ceremonial atmosphere that draws on the genre's most primitive and uncompromising traditions.
Vienna metalcore band formed in 2020, Rotten Halo resist easy genre classification, describing their sound as landing somewhere between thrash, death metal, and core influences. Their early catalog of singles and EPs — including Devoured Hope, Call of the Entity, and Lords of War — establishes a direct, riff-heavy approach that encourages listeners to draw their own conclusions.
Rotten Light is a depressive black metal project from Burgos in Castile and León, Spain, active since 2013. The project channels melancholic, introspective black metal from the Gothic cathedral city on the northern Castilian meseta.
Rotten Minds is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Móstoles near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015. The band delivers extreme brutality from Madrid's southern metropolitan area.
Rotten Moon is a raw black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2024. The project delivers lo-fi, unpolished black metal from Finland's third-largest city.
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